Played bass today at church

LOL, funny stories make good memories ...

Cheers

Richard     

I suppose it could have been worse? You could have been in the wrong church!!!!!

But great story, how did the gig go ? Sore digits I'm guessing?     

That is absolutely what I ought to have done.     

Update on this. I've been playing every other week or so. Pretty much whenever I'm in town on both Thursday (rehearsal) and Sunday.

My fretless was giving some terrible 60 cycle hum into the mix. It wasn't getting into the house, but it was very loud and distracting in the monitors. So I checked it out and the components were cheap and there was no shielding. So I shielded all the cavities, put in new pickups, ran new wires (coax for the longer runs), did a little better job grounding at the bridge, put in a new high mass bridge, and replaced the pots and jack. The neck, body, and tuning machines are all that's left of the original, and the tuning machines are being eyed with suspicion.

After all this, it ran silently until I wanted to make noise. But once the amp was plugged into the board, hum. Plus there was some kind of signal cancelation because the bass would go silent in the monitors. The solution was to get a DI box that runs on phantom power so there's only one electric circuit involved. Boom.

Today was the first run with the rebuilt bass and new signal chain and it worked great.